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Twelve miles (19.3 km) and several tax brackets away is Indian Hill, an East Side suburb that is home to those fiscally conservative swing voters the Obama campaign would like to win over. A drive around Indian Hill's winding country lanes leaves a visitor thinking it's less a town than a state park with sprawling manors. Bush beat John Kerry here by better than 3 to 1, and McCain and Palin have each dropped by in the past few months to raise money. But just a few weeks before the 2008 election, the yard signs anchored...
...constituency that we had to make every effort to get on board," says Joe Seaton, the McCain aide in charge of southwest Ohio. "And we have done so." But the outreach, along with McCain's selection of Palin as his running mate, may have alienated socially moderate swing voters and explains why McCain aides say they are targeting "the Cincinnati media market"--meaning more conservative outer counties like Butler and Warren--instead of the once rock-solid Hamilton...
...Democratic energy bill or health-care-reform bill, say - would clash with his gut-level identification with the gop. Washington veterans agree that McCain's conservative ideas for tax cuts and health-care reform wouldn't stand a chance in a Democratic Congress. But he might enlist enough swing-district Democrats - whose hold on their seats is tenuous - to join congressional Republicans in a grand compromise between the spenders on Capitol Hill and the tax cutters in the White House...
...Florida, the nation's largest swing state, with 27 electoral votes, is one of 36 states that allow early voting, which increases convenience for voters and reduces Election Day stress for officials. Other states, like Nevada and Georgia, are seeing similarly high turnouts...
...Meanwhile, the no-drama Obama campaign has deployed Biden to the smallest hardscrabble corners of America's swing states, where he makes common cause by invoking his own working-class roots in Scranton, Pa. He speaks of his father, who told Biden to always get up when he got knocked down. He says he wishes his mother could be there to say, "God bless ya." Biden even invokes his 10-year-old granddaughter Finnegan, whose favorite expression - "Hellooo?" - sums up Biden's reaction to the efforts of his "old dear friend" McCain to distance himself from George W. Bush...